If Only...

I stayed home from work, sick, one day this week. I just had too much cramping and bleeding. Evidently the only reason a newly married woman would be staying home sick is if she were pregnant. The rumor mill at work says I'm pregnant. If one more person asks me.....

If only it were true.



Miss X

Chemical Sorrow

My last cycle was very weird. I had tons of pg symptoms; implantation spotting at 7dpo, sore boobs, frequent urination. My cycle lasted 3 days past my normal luteal phase. That has never happened in the 6+ years I have been tracking my cycles. When my period came I thought that the ttc bug had just gotten the best of me and I had imagined all of my "symptoms". My period was pretty light, but I didn't think much of it.

This cycle started and things were frustrating me. Almost no ewcm - I am the ewcm queen. No +opk, nothing. Then yesterday - on presumed day 15 the floods unleashed. Very painful, clotting period. Talk to the doc and my mom (she's a nurse) and everyone has concluded that I have most likely just had a miscarriage. Ouch.

I'm sad and dazed all at the same time. Yesterday was really bad timing since we had a house full of people. One of said people was my friend who is currently 5 months pg with her second accident pg. She bitched about being pregnant all afternoon. She obviously had no idea about what was going on with me. Brutal all the same.

Not sure what else to say. Just can't sleep so I thought I would come on here.

I hope this doesn't happen again.


Miss X

Backyard BBQ

Most of you know that my sweet hubby and I were married by ourselves in a private ceremony, so we have decided to have a small BBQ at our house tomorrow afternoon. It will be small, about 15 people, just immediate family and a couple of close friends. Unfortunately it is supposed to be 110 tomorrow just like it was yesterday and is supposed to be today. UGH! So I think it is going to turn into a living room BBQ!

We have been busting our butts all week trying to get our house in pristine order. It was somewhat torn apart with all of our painting. We finally finished painting our kitchen on Monday! In total we stripped wall paper and painted our living room, dining room, hallway, and kitchen! It was SO much work, but it really did turn out lovely. We have our pictures and art hung back on the walls and it looks like a totally different house. I really like it.

I need to do a final cleaning and prepping of the food tonight. I bought a couple of salsas that look so yummy! Key lime garlic and a mango-peach salsa. Mmmm...makes my mouth water! DH is BBQ'ing chicken and Brats (and veggie burgers for me!), and his awesome grilled asparagus. He grills it with olive oil, spices, french fried onions and blue cheese crumbles. It is AWESOME! I also ordered two cakes for the party. One is white cake with lemon filling and lemon butter cream frosting. The other cake is chocolate with chocolate mouse filling and chocolate whipped cream frosting!

Okay, now that I am seriously hungry I better get going! Have a great weekend everybody!


Miss X

Italy Bound

Well it's official, we bought our tickets to Italy! We fly into Venice October 19th and fly out of Rome on November 1st to return home. We plan on taking trains and spending about 3 days in Venice, 3 days in Florence, 3 days in the Tuscan countryside, and 3ish days in Rome. That leaves us about 1 extra day.

We haven't booked all our hotels yet, but we are heavy in research mode. I am in love with the country inns in Tuscany. They look fresh out of the movies! Beautiful farmhouse in the midst of vineyards, horses, wine tastings, etc... Sigh. Just beautiful! And so much cheaper then the city hotels! The exchange rates are beyond painful right now.

We are even attempting to learn some Italian! We bought the Ro*s*tta St*ne Italian lesson level 1 and we have been working at it together just about every night. It is fun and challenging. Neither of us expect to learn a whole lot before our trip but I think it will ease a little bit of our fears about being in a country where you can't speak the language. I just want to be able to get by at least a little bit. Communicate the really important information.

Lot's of planning left to do and we really need to get on it! I can't believe how soon the trip is coming up! I still have to get my new passport with my married name on it! YIKES! Super exciting though. This is really going to be a great trip for us.

Oh! I added a countdown on the bottom of the blog for fun! Enjoy!



Miss X